Exacerbation of pancreatic inflammation

After reading this article, you will learn how to distinguish the aggravation of inflammation of the pancreas from other pathologies of the digestive system, get information about what to do to relieve the attack, whether it is possible to treat inflammation at home and what signs indicate the need to urgently consult a doctor.

Acute and chronic pancreatitis

Pancreatitis is an inflammatory process in the pancreas. The term unites various diseases.

It is hardly possible to talk about more or less important organs in the human body: can a person live without a liver, heart, intestines, lungs?

The loss of even an insignificant at first sight organ reduces the quality of life, increases the risk of developing certain pathologies.

However, the pancreas can rightly be considered the queen of digestion.

Firstly, it is a vital organ, the loss of which was not so long ago a death sentence, but even at the modern level of medicine, life without a pancreas can hardly be called full-fledged.

Secondly, the body provides the digestive process, so even small irregularities in its work draw for itself various disorders of the entire system.

22 enzymes are contained in two liters of pancreatic juice, which gland secrete every day.

This solution converts fats, proteins and carbohydrates into the duodenum, converting them into a convenient form for feeding cells.

Acute pancreatitis is in third place in frequency among acute pathologies of the abdominal cavity organs after appendicitis and cholecystitis.

If normal pancreatic enzymes are activated in the duodenum and affect food from the stomach, then in acute pancreatitis they are included earlier, starting to digest the organ.

As a result, the necrosis of tissues can occur, fraught with the release of toxins into the blood, which causes irregularities in the work of the heart, lungs, brain, kidneys, liver and other organs.

Chronic pancreatitis is not an advanced acute, but a separate pathology, which requires a certain period of time for development.

The disease has three degrees of severity - depending on the frequency of exacerbations and the severity of each exacerbation.

The clinical picture in acute and chronic pancreatitis may have similar features.

Acute pathology is characterized by severe shingles in the upper abdomen, which can give back, and when it moves, it increases.

Symptoms of many diseases of the digestive system include nausea and vomiting, but with pancreatitis there is no relief after vomiting.

Symptoms of exacerbation of chronic pancreatitis usually arise after serious diet disorders, when the patient decides to eat a lot, there are heavy and / or fatty foods. Less exacerbation is caused by cold carbonated drinks.

Exacerbations of chronic pancreatitis

Various causes lead to the development of pancreatic inflammation. In most cases it is alcohol, but infections are possible, tablets( antibiotics, estrogens and even such an innocuous medicine as paracetamol if abused).

An unhealthy diet is not directly responsible for pancreatitis, but fatty food disrupts the gallbladder and liver, which can cause discomfort in the pancreas.

If the diagnosis of "pancreatitis" is set, then a person can no longer eat everything he wants.

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Diet( proper nutrition, refusal of alcohol) becomes one of the guarantees that the period without exacerbations with pancreatitis will be prolonged.

Symptoms of inflammation of the pancreas are quite specific and allow you to easily diagnose, however, signs of chronic pancreatitis vary widely depending on the form and other conditions, which makes diagnosis and treatment more difficult.

Pain syndrome in pancreatitis can masquerade as heart pain, give to the right or left hypochondrium, epigastrium or girdle - depending on which part of the gland is inflamed and can hurt.

Symptoms of pancreatitis can be distinguished from pain emanating from another organ by its nature. When pancreatitis, it increases in prone position and releases sitting, slightly bending forward.

Dyspeptic cider includes the following symptoms: nausea, vomiting, lack of appetite( in some cases, on the contrary, there is no pain, but you always want to eat).

Belching occurs more often than heartburn and bloating, and diarrhea only occurs with severe exacerbations.

In the mild form of pancreatitis, the exocrine function is usually not disturbed, with an average, it decreases, and with severe form, the exocrine function is severely impaired.

With a deficiency of pancreatic enzymes, you can fully eat, but the body will still lose valuable substances.

Intrasecretory( endocrine) function is reduced in a third of patients with pancreatitis, which leads to a violation of carbohydrate metabolism.

The important thing is not how much sweet you will eat( even a non-carbohydrate diet does not guarantee health), but how many hormones will produce iron.

In this case, the cells receive less energy, but in the blood of free sugar becomes too much.

Measures for pancreatitis

As a rule, pancreatitis is a disease of adults. The disease occurs after a person for years ignores the needs of his liver, hepabiliary system and digestive organs in general.

However, in post-Soviet medicine you can notice a large number of diagnoses of "pancreatitis" among children.

In each case, adults have the choice - to treat a child or, before giving the pill and severely restricting the diet, try to figure out how he managed to earn such a serious pathology at a young age.

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This can be done only with the help of a competent, modern in every sense gastroenterologist, who not only tries to get rid of the patient, adjusting his symptoms to the required diagnosis, how much he really tries to understand the reasons for his condition.

However, we must admit that a serious diagnosis of the child is often in the interest of adults, especially caring mothers.

It is hard to suspect a child of health problems, but the diagnosis allows you to mobilize and begin to take care: to provide treatment, to monitor the liver, pancreas and other organs, to force to eat properly, pamper, so that even the diet does not interfere with the poor sick kid to eat deliciously and soFurther.

In adults on ultrasound of the liver, the functionalist often indicates an increased echogenicity of the pancreas as a risk of developing pancreatitis.

However, it is normal for the liver to be more echogenic, and this does not in any way indicate whether there is a risk of pancreatitis.

The first thing to do when exacerbating the inflammation of the pancreas is to relieve the pain, and only then can it be treated: to remove the symptoms, to seek and eliminate the causes.

For this, treatment includes antispasmodics and analgesics - tablets or injections, depending on the complexity of the condition.

Treatment of pancreatitis is basically a diet. The first days( 3 - 5) you can not eat anything, and valuable substances in the body are injected intravenously.

When switching to normal food, you must eat shredded food in small portions. The diet is based on light proteins: lean meat and fish, egg whites.

You can not eat spicy, sour, canned, fatty, fried. The more rational the diet will be after discharge, the greater the chance that the exacerbations will be less frequent and in a lighter form.

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Treatment of chronic pancreatitis may include a variety of activities, depending on the cause and conditions that caused the disorder.

The patient takes a variety of pills designed to reduce the secretion of gastric and pancreatic juice.

Treatment involves providing the gland with rest, for this you need not only a diet, but antacids, because hydrochloric acid in the stomach encourages the pancreas to work.

If the function of the gland is reduced, the doctor can treat pancreatitis with enzymes. As a rule, this is a substitution treatment, that is, in most cases is carried out until the end of life.